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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

I think you'll find that a little more is expected of them than that. Are you actually aware of the current SATS requirements?

Come on WillowTheWhisp how would I a 70 years old geezer with a youngest child of 34 and grandchildren past their teens and great grandchildren under 3 years old know about modern SATS requirements?

The criteria that I outlined was a bare minimum and if the modern SATS require “a little more” then it just goes to show that the standard is too low. Sadly many Primary school leavers do not attain even that low standard.

When my classmates and me left Primary school we were able to do long division with numbers with a decimal point, long multiplication also with decimal pointed numbers and of course complex addition and subtraction. We could manipulate the old currency, weights and measure. We learned and knew by heart all the multiplication tables.

We were reading books like Robinson Crusoe and the Enid Blyton Five stories.

Lessons have been ‘dumbed down’ to cater for the least clever instead of striking a middle balance.

I accept that not all kids can be clever and there will always be some cleverer than others or put another way thicker than others but you don’t do anyone any favours by pandering to the lowest common denominator. All that does is slows everyone down.